Windows 10: Popup message 'Mail: To help protect your Online Id account you must signin again'

A few users of Windows Live Mail have reported seeing this message when launching the program:





One of these users opened the Mail app and found that his Outlook account 'needed updating.' It's not clear what he did, but after doing it, he wasn't bothered again by the pop-up.


Can anyone confirm that this message is - as its title bar suggests - generated by Mail?


The inexpert language leads me to suspect that this is in fact malware attempting to acquire the user's credentials.

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WIndows Live Mail "To help protect your account info, please sign in again" Windows 10

Hi,

Thanks for posting your query to Microsoft forum. I will certainly help you with this.

Good to know that Windows Live mail is working on your computer with Windows 10, to get rid of the message please refer the suggestions in the links below:

Windows Live Mail 2nd Protection Sign-in

When opening Windows Live Mail: 'To help protect your account information, Please sign in again"

This step may or may not work on Windows 10.

If the issue persists, you can share your feedback in the
Feedback app which comes preinstalled in Windows 10, where you can provide the feedback & suggestions.

You may also Let us know if you need further assistance. We will be glad to help you further.

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Thanks & Regards,

 

'signin with local account' not working

Tried those. Did not work. Did some more checking. CMD(admin) window net user shows all the user accounts. LUSMGR.msc there are no users listed. Not sure if this is part of my problem. Also, found reference to ntrights. Will see if that might help with specific user (mine) that I cannot change to local signin.

 

Advice needed : New e-mail account

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In return for this, you get an incredibly secure e-mail account with zero maintenance.

If you would prefer not to have even Google's computers poke through your messages, you can buy a Google for Work account ($5 a month). Honestly, kind of worth it even for a personal account.